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Why so many? Clearly this must be much more expensive since FileMaker Pro is very affordable compared to products like MS SQL and other databases. Still others used Cosential, Advantage and ACT with a mixure of MS database products. Many firms combined the use of MS SQL, MS Access and MS Outlook. One of the more interesting facts coming out of this data was that firms which didn't use FileMaker Pro for their database solutions, typically had to use two or more database products. Why So Many Databases When Firms Don't Use FileMaker? When one omitted those firms using SQL or another database, since we cannot fully know where Access fits in with a SQL deployment, then the number of firms using just Access fell to just six (6) firms with an average seat count of 64. However, many firms using Access were also using MS SQL, a more robust enterprise-grade database, not in the same class as Access or FileMaker. If you took out the largest Access-based firm, then it dropped to 67, comparable to FileMaker. Without HOK's large count, the average was 60.Ĭompared to MS Access, the average firm size was 136. The average employee count for FileMaker Pro firms was 238, but this was largely offset by the use of FileMaker at HOK, a 1850 person firm with multiple offices around the country.

The leading database was MS Access used by 13 firms. Out of 53 firms in the group, FileMaker Pro was used by 10 of them (while one of those was the FileMaker Pro engine used in AppleWorks and the other a FileMaker-based product called MarketEdge). If one was to assume this to be correct, then FileMaker Pro is either number one or number two in the architectural database market. While not scientific, the survey sample is well rounded—reflecting the purpose of the article—and likely to be a fair cross section of architectural firms in the United States. Regardless, while the firms—ranging in size and age—have been hand picked out of many more that responded to the magazine's request for information, choice of database software likely did not affect who they chose for the article. So it was interesting to see the survey data from Architectural Record—which they admit is not scientific. However we are not aware of any definite, official survey data which shows FileMaker to be clearly number one in market share for architecture firms in the US.

There have been many articles in print and on the Web indicating FileMaker Pro's popularity in the architecture profession. Architectural Record Survey Shows FileMaker a dominant database for architecture firmsĪs we mentioned in a related story on IT for AEC, a feature article in the May issue of Architectural Record, which contains survey data, indicates FileMaker Pro's dominant market position in the architecture field.įileMaker Pro: Number One in Architecture?